21But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances —though the man who does these things will live by them — and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
22But I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
— Ezekiel 20:21-22